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  • Adv Topics in BiomechanicsENGR90020

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    Students will be introduced to selected topics from biomechanics, biomaterials, system biology and biorobotics. Students will also appreciate the use of Dynamic Programming, Markov Models and Optimal Control in the above areas. Students will be encouraged to develop critical and constructive thin...

  • Adv Topics in Engineering MathematicsELEN90018

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    AIMS This subject is intended to give students a rigorous introduction to a selection of foundational mathematical tools and techniques commonly employed in electrical, electronic and systems engineering.INDICATIVE CONTENT The course content will include a selection of topics from: Optimisatio...

  • Adv Topics in Fluid MechanicsENGR90019

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    This subject will cover the relevant fundamentals of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics theory, and the way these fundamentals are used in current research practice and industry. The first part of the course will cover fundamentals and the mathematical tools related to fluid mechanics as a contin...

  • Aerospace Dynamics and ControlMCEN90045

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject introduces performance, stability and control of a range of aerospace vehicles. It will cover the modelling of aerospace physical systems as ordinary differential equations, and then introduce mathematical techniques to analyse and control their behaviour.  The topics covered in thi...

  • Aerospace PropulsionMCEN90047

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject will cover the aerodynamics and thermodynamics of aircraft gas turbines and rockets and provide the tools to design and evaluate the performance of jet engines. It will also present the current environmental impacts of aviation and paths for more sustainable aviation. Topics include...

  • A First Course In Statistical LearningMAST90104

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    Supervised statistical learning is based on the widely used linear models that model a response as a linear combination of explanatory variables. Initially this subject develops an elegant unified theory for a quantitative response that includes the estimation of model parameters, hypothesis test...

  • Africa: Environment, Development, PeopleGEOG30024

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject introduces students to the physical environment, history and development challenges facing contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa. Students will examine in detail intellectual and ethical debates surrounding the strategies undertaken by postcolonial African states and the overseas developme...

  • African Music and Dance EnsembleMUSI10148

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject introduces students to music and dance in West Africa. Through weekly rehearsals culminating in a final performance, students learn to perform traditional rhythmic patterns using drums, bells, and their bodies; students also have the opportunity to learn traditional dance steps. We...

  • Ageing and Human RightsLAWS90242

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:March Year:2024Quotas apply

    The ageing of world populations and the increased longevity of individuals has significant political, cultural and economic consequences. Ageism, the marginalisation of and discrimination against ‘older persons’, in particularly subgroups of older persons, is widespread, and involve systematic hu...

  • Ageing Health & Human ServicesPOPH90267

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Term 4 Year:2024

    This course explores the interface of policy and practice in the delivery of aged care services. The responses to policy shifts in aged care over time will be explored. The course will then focus on the present day impact of health care, mental health, income security, housing, and employment, ed...

  • Ageing in SocietyPOPH90256

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Term 2 Year:2024

    This subject aims to offer students a critical examination of the ways in which ageing is socially constructed. Students will learn about ageing from a range of perspectives, including life course, bio-medical, gender, cross cultural, consumer, historical and self-reflection. The subject will foc...

  • Agribusiness 1AGRI90012

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    An understanding of managerial economic theory to solving real world problems is integral to sound business decision-making. Through this subject student will gain an understanding of, and ability to apply, key micro economic principles and applied economics and finance to management decisions in...

  • Agribusiness 2AGRI90077

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:July Year:2024

    Food, beverage and fibre value chains exist in both developed and developing countries, and may be analysed in terms of both firm and whole-of-chain perspectives. This subject reconciles supply, price, value chain and risk concepts and introduces a range of techniques applicable to value chain ma...

  • Agribusiness Marketing & Value ChainsAGRI30040

    Undergraduate subject Offered:July Year:2024

    This subject is about applying principles of agricultural economics, agribusiness marketing and agribusiness value chain analysis to analysing and understanding the process of creating value in agricultural products, from the perspectives of individual firms in the value chain and of the whole va...

  • Agric.Science Research Project Part 1AGRI40017

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 (Extended) Year:2024

    This honours research project in the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences aims to develop a student's ability to design and undertake a substantial body of work, to find solutions to a particular problem, and to report on this in written and verbal form. Project definition is completed...

  • Agric.Science Research Project Part 2AGRI40018

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 (Early-Start) Year:2024

    Please refer to AGRI40017 Agricultural Science Research Project Part 1

  • Agricultural Advisory Practice & TheoryAGRI90092

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    A common and important role that agricultural scientists play is supporting farmers to implement strategies for continuous improvement on-farm to achieve sustainability and productivity goals. This subject will provide students with the theory and practice of how to support change on-farm through...

  • Agricultural EconomicsAGRI20042

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Formerly ECON20012 Agricultural Economics is an introduction to applying principles of agricultural economics to understanding the roles and practices of agriculture in the economy and the behaviour of producers and consumers in the agribusiness and farm sectors. The content will include the ro...

  • Agricultural ExtensionAGRI90093

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    A common and important role that agricultural scientists and agri-business service providers play is within agricultural research projects or initiatives of agricultural industries and government targeting changes in practice or adoption amongst the farming population or in particular rural commu...

  • Agricultural GeneticsAGRI10052

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    The objective of this subject is to introduce students to the concepts of genetics and the effects of genetic variation and selection used to propagate valuable heritable trait combinations in crop plants and farm animals. Topics covered include - Historical background around (origin) genetics, ...